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Maybe not. I was thinking of something along the lines of him asking NY "Can you bring them up the following charges? And then we'll release all the charges together, even though some are federal and some are state".

That sounds like collusion. Seriously I think it would be bad form for a federal investigator to attempt to influence state investigations to that level of detail. Investigators need to allow their own cases to ripen each unto its season, following the timetable of meticulous inquiry only.

I'm not sure if 2 levels of government cooperating would count as 'collusion'.

Ok, maybe Meuller wouldn't be able to dictate what charges were laid and when, but he is coordinating with NY (as another poster pointed out), so he and the state AG could still come to an agreement, like: Meuller: "I've got these federal laws I was going to charge them with". State AG: "I've got these broken state laws". Meuller: "Lets coordinate the release schedule".

And therein lies quite likely the rub: Manafort worked for Trump because he was already in bed with the Russian, and he may have done it for free because he was already payed by the Russians.

Manafort is in deep deep **** ("to the upper crest of the lower lip", as a German idiom puts it), because Mueller has something to the tune of a $10,000,000 bail-and-still-unfree-to-leave against him. And Manaford has something against Trump.

And therein lies quite likely the rub: Manafort worked for Trump because he was already in bed with the Russian, and he may have done it for free because he was already payed by the Russians.

Manafort is in deep deep **** ("to the upper crest of the lower lip", as a German idiom puts it), because Mueller has something to the tune of a $10,000,000 bail-and-still-unfree-to-leave against him. And Manaford has something against Trump.

Mueller's also quite likely has one or two more talking minions up his sleeve, and he is now putting a pair of slightly bigger minions on house arrest to see who starts talking faster, faced with too much dirt on their lying arses.

Oh, minions are adorable! Trump is just the sort of boss they would love!Their quest

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ETA: Good to see if I'm off topic with movie references I'm not alone!

And therein lies quite likely the rub: Manafort worked for Trump because he was already in bed with the Russian, and he may have done it for free because he was already payed by the Russians.

Manafort is in deep deep **** ("to the upper crest of the lower lip", as a German idiom puts it), because Mueller has something to the tune of a $10,000,000 bail-and-still-unfree-to-leave against him. And Manaford has something against Trump.

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Samantha Power was an unpaid adviser to Obama in 2008. But that doesn’t mean that she wasn’t close to him or that her views did not matter. She become one of his top aides at the White House and then the United Nations ambassador.

Organized crime. Gangsters at the highest level in Trump's circles, possible including some still in the White House. Trump himself may be immune, but his kids? I'm not so sure.

There's gangsters and organized crime everywhere at the top level of (not only) US government, including Mueller who has a lot of skeletons in his closet not least covering up for international networks post-9/11. It's anybodies guess where this tumbling abomination will turn next, but the fact that Trump is now closing in on one year after election, untouched by anything but a cacaphony of pre$$titute noise, shows that if there's mayor dirt on him, it can't be untangled without bringing the whole House of Cards down.

There's gangsters and organized crime everywhere at the top level of (not only) US government, including Mueller who has a lot of skeletons in his closet not least covering up for international networks post-9/11. It's anybodies guess where this tumbling abomination will turn next, but the fact that Trump is now closing in on one year after election, untouched by anything but a cacaphony of pre$$titute noise, shows that if there's mayor dirt on him, it can't be untangled without bringing the whole House of Cards down.

This alone suggests to me that this is not politics as normal in Washington.

Were this really a witch hunt, leaks would be used to discredit and disparage the people being investigated, in lieu of actual prosecution. Instead, this seems to be running like an actual investigation by people who think something is there and are looking for convictions.

Nor is there evidence he did it for free because he was already getting paid by the Russians.

I freely admit that my interpretation of current events, including but by no means limited to the fact that $10,000,000 bail only buy him house arrest, is somewhat speculative at the moment - but chances are very much higher that Manafort will sing like a bird about how he personally profited from assisting Trump in(to) colluding with the enemy than that he did it for a nice post at the UN.

35. On July 27, 2017, defendant PAPADOPOULOS was arrested upon his arrival at
Dulles International Airport. Following his arrest, defendant PAPADOPOULOS met with the
Government on numerous occasions to provide information and answer questions.

Can you say "singing like a canary", boys and girls? I knew you could!

This alone suggests to me that this is not politics as normal in Washington.

Were this really a witch hunt, leaks would be used to discredit and disparage the people being investigated, in lieu of actual prosecution. Instead, this seems to be running like an actual investigation by people who think something is there and are looking for convictions.

What's the appropriate term for a case where leaks are used to discredit and disparage people being investigate in addition to actual prosecution?

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